M’Cheyne Bible Reading Plan
23 Then they told David, saying, “Behold, the Philistines fight against Keilah, and plunder the barns.”
2 Therefore, David asked counsel of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go and strike these Philistines?” And the LORD answered David, “Go and strike the Philistines and save Keilah.”
3 And David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more if we come to Keilah against the army of the Philistines?”
4 Then David asked counsel of the LORD again. And the LORD answered him, and said: “Arise, go down to Keilah. For I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.”
5 So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their cattle and struck them with a great slaughter. Thus David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.
6 And when Abiathar, the son of Ahimelech, fled to David, to Keilah, he brought an ephod with him.
7 And it was told to Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand; for he is closed in, seeing he has come into a city that has gates and bars.”
8 Then Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah and to besiege David and his men.
9 And David, having knowledge that Saul devised mischief against him, said to Abiathar the Priest, “Bring the ephod.”
10 Then David said, “O LORD God of Israel! Your servant has heard that Saul is about to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.
11 “Will the lords of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? And will Saul come down, as Your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant!” And the LORD said: “He will come down.”
12 Then David said, “Will the lords of Keilah deliver me up, and the men who are with me, into the hand of Saul?” And the LORD said: “They will deliver you up.”
13 Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah and went wherever they could. And it was told to Saul that David had fled from Keilah. And he ceased his journey.
14 And David stayed in the wilderness, in the strongholds, and remained on a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day; but God did not deliver him into his hand.
15 And David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. And David was in the wilderness of Ziph, in the forest.
16 And Jonathan, Saul’s son, arose and went to David, into the forest, and comforted him in God,
17 and said to him, “Do not fear. For the hand of Saul, my father, shall not find you. And you shall be king over Israel. And I shall be next to you. And also, Saul, my father, knows it.”
18 So the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And David remained in the forest; but Jonathan went to his house.
19 Then, the Ziphites came up to Saul, to Gibeah, saying, “Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the forest, on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the right side of Jeshimon?
20 “Now, therefore, O king, come down according to all that your heart can desire. And our part shall be to deliver him into the king’s hands.”
21 Then Saul said, “Be blessed of the LORD! For you have had compassion on me.
22 “Please go and find out more. Know and see this place that he haunts and who has seen him there. For it is said to me, ‘He is subtle and crafty.’
23 “See, therefore, and know all the secret places where he hides himself. And come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.”
24 Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. But David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain, to the right of Jeshimon.
25 When Saul and his men went to seek him, they told David. Therefore, he came down to a rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he followed after David in the wilderness of Maon.
26 And Saul and his men went to one side of the mountain, and David and his men to the other side of the mountain. And David hurried to get away from the presence of Saul (for Saul and his men surrounded David and his men, to take them).
27 But a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come! For the Philistines have invaded the land!”
28 Therefore, Saul returned from pursuing David and went against the Philistines. So they called that place: Sela Hammahlekoth.
4 Let a man so think of us, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
2 And as for the rest, it is required of the stewards that everyone be found faithful.
3 As for me, however, it is my least concern to be examined by you, or by mankind. I do not even examine myself.
4 For though I am aware of nothing against myself, I am not thereby justified. But the One who judges me is the Lord.
5 Therefore, judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, Who will enlighten things that are hidden in darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts. And then shall every man have praise of God.
6 Now these things, brothers, I have figuratively applied to my own self and Apollos, for your sakes, that you might learn by us; that no one presumes above that which is written, that no one is puffed up over another.
7 For who separates you? And what do you have, that you have not received? If you have received it, why do you boast as though you had not received it?
8 Now you are full. Now you are made rich. You reign as kings without us. And I would that you did reign, so that we also might reign with you.
9 For I think that God has set us forth, the last Apostles, as men appointed to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, and to the angels, and to man.
10 We are fools for Christ’s sake; and you, wise in Christ. We are weak, and you strong. You honorable, and we despised.
11 Unto this hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place;
12 and labor, working with our own hands. We are reviled, and we bless. We are persecuted. We suffer it.
13 We are slandered, and we pray. We are made as the filth of the world, the scum of all things, unto this time.
14 I do not write these things to shame you. But as my beloved children, I admonish you.
15 For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you, through the Gospel.
16 Therefore, I encourage you, be followers of me.
17 For this cause have I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord; who shall put you in remembrance of my ways in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church.
18 Now, some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.
19 But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord wills, and I will know, not the words of those who are puffed up, but the power.
20 For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
21 What is your will? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and in the spirit of meekness?
2 And He said to me: “Son of man, stand up upon your feet, and I will speak to you.”
2 And the Spirit entered into me after He had spoken to me, and set me upon my feet, so that I heard Him Who spoke to me.
3 And He said to me: “Son of man, I send you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. They and their fathers have rebelled against Me to this very day.
4 “For they are impudent children, and stiff-hearted. I send you to them. And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD God.’
5 “But surely, they will not hear. Indeed, nor will they cease. For they are a rebellious House: Yet they shall know that there has been a Prophet among them.
6 “And you, son of man, do not fear them or be afraid of their words, although rebels and thorns are with you, and you remain with scorpions. Do not fear their words or be afraid of their looks, for they are a rebellious House.
7 “Therefore, you shall speak My Words to them. Surely, they will not hear. Indeed, nor will they cease, for they are rebellious.
8 “But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be rebellious, like this rebellious House. Open your mouth and eat that I give you.”
9 And when I looked up, behold, a Hand was sent to me. And lo, a scroll of a book was inside.
10 And He spread it before me, and there was writing inside and outside. And lamentations and mourning and woe were written on it.
38 O LORD, do not rebuke me in Your anger, nor chastise me in Your wrath.
2 For Your arrows have pierced me deeply; and Your hand lies upon me.
3 Because of Your anger, there is nothing sound in my flesh; nor is there rest in my bones because of my sin.
4 For my iniquities have gone over my head; as a weighty burden, they are too heavy for me.
5 My wounds are putrefied, and corrupt, because of my foolishness.
6 I am bowed, and very troubled. I go mourning all day long.
7 For my core is full of burning; and there is nothing sound in my flesh.
8 I am weakened and very broken: I roar for the very grief of my heart.
9 LORD, I pour my whole desire before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You.
10 My heart pants. My strength fails me, and the light of my eyes. Even they are not my own.
11 My lovers and my friends stand aside from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
12 Also, those who seek after my life lay snares; and those who go about to do me evil talk wicked things and imagine deceit continually.
13 But I, as a deaf man, did not hear. I am as a dumb man who does not open his mouth.
14 Thus I am as a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes.
15 For on You, O LORD, I wait. You will hear, my LORD. My God.
16 For I said, “Hear me, lest they rejoice over me. When my foot slips, they extol themselves against me.”
17 Surely, I am ready to halt; and my sorrow is ever before me.
18 When I declare my pain, and am sorry for my sin,
19 then my enemies are alive and are mighty; and those who hate me wrongfully are many.
20 Also, those who reward evil for good are my adversaries, because I follow goodness.
21 Do not forsake me, O LORD. Do not be far from me, my God.
22 Hasten to help me, O my LORD. My Salvation. To the excellent musician, Jeduthun: A Psalm of David.
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